The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Teaching support

Whether you are a new or experienced instructor, graduate student, or a postdoctoral fellow starting out on your teaching career, we offer a broad range of teaching development supports that will assist your teaching.

The supports we offer include workshops and teaching programs, course and curriculum design and development, teaching handbooks, learning technology resources and academic integrity strategies.

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Teaching support

Our services

We offer a broad range of teaching development supports that will assist instructors, teaching assistant, post-doctoral fellows.

    • Classroom observation
    • Customized workshops
    • Course development consultations
    • Indigenous pedagogical resources and consultations
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion consultations
    • Digital media design services
    • Teaching assistant consultations
    • Teaching dossier consultation
    • UM SRI course evaluation consultations
    • Teaching strategies discussion
    • Help with difficulties you are facing in the classroom

Upcoming workshops and events

Workshops for everyone

Workshops for faculty

Workshops for graduate students and teaching assistants (TAs)

Programs we offer

We offer a wide variety of programs, workshops and special teaching events to the university teaching community to enhance teaching and learning experiences.

Graduate Teaching Program (GTP)

Graduate Teaching Program (GTP)

The Level 1: Novice Graduate Teaching Program (GTP) is for current full-time or part-time Masters, PhD and post-doctoral fellows at the University of Manitoba who are in the early stages of their teaching careers and who want to learn more about teaching in higher education. The knowledge and skills attained in the program will help graduate students further develop their confidence and competence as a new teacher.
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Inclusive Pedagogies Faculty Learning Community

Go deeper with inclusive pedagogies and build connections with other instructors with this comprehensive peer learning program. Over a single semester, participants will work together to design and redesign aspects of their courses and teaching practices to address topics in equity, diversity, and inclusion. This program is open to any UM faculty, staff, or graduate student who is lead-teaching a course during the semester the program is offered.

We can help you make your teaching more just

Indigenous pedagogies and equity, diversity, and inclusion are important topics where we offer specialist support.

Explore teaching strategies

Incorporate experiential learning into your teaching, get help with teaching remotely or help developing a face-to-face or blended learning course.

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Syllabus toolkit

Designing a syllabus is a complex task. A syllabus needs to communicate essential course details to students in a friendly and open tone. On this page you’ll find templates in a variety of formats that you can adapt for your needs, and a syllabus creation guide organized by section to correspond with the templates. All documents meet or exceed the requirements for instructors laid out in the Responsibilities of Academic Staff with Regards to Students (ROASS) policy.
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Course and curriculum development

Whether you are creating a face-to-face, blended or online course for the first time or you would like to change an existing course, The Centre’s course development experts can help you define your learning objectives, design aligned learning activities and formulate effective assessments to improve learner outcomes.

Teaching resources

Except where otherwise noted, these teaching resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Contact us

The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
65 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg, MB
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

thecentrecontactus@umanitoba.ca
204-474-8708
204-474-7514